Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-20
For This Week Only.
Sanger Bros
Dallas, TEX.
THE BABY.
4 Series Of Letters from Marion Har-
land to Those Who are the Mothers
Of immortal Beings.
Time the Only Cure for Constitutional
Restlessnsss-A Caution as to Young
ChiIdreR's Bed Fellows
BY MARION HA2LAND.
Author of Common Sense in the Nursery" etc.
Baoy's Sleep
Copyright. 1887. by the Author.

DaOy \ Steep
Copyright, 1887, by the Author.
Imprimis: Baby must sleep more than
his elders, o. he will not grow and be
healthy. For the first three months he
should give from twelve to sixteen
hours to sound slumDer that rests him all
through for the lesson of life. II is not
optional with him whether he will learn
it or not. Each Sense is a sch0OlmaSteT
that taxes the Immature brain to the
utmost. The only security from eXhaus-
ton is il complete forge tfUlness between
study hours. The necessity CT getting at
any cost reCuperative rest fer the pupil is
patent to the duIlest mind. Everybody
knows that babies ought to be ssletp two
thirds Of the time, but many never ask
why Nature insists upon this, or appreci-
ate the peril of rhwerting her design.
When baby has had his morning bath
and breakfast, he should be put to bed
as for the night, the room be made dark
and still. broken nap is a nervous
shock. He is so far away in dresm-land
that the untimely awakening IS like being
| ierked back. "It makes him cross" says
nurse-crOss because mis- nerves are
rasped and his brain Jared. Repeat the
violence q few times and you break up
| the habit of sIumber, have a "trouble-
, some" child on your hands, with yourself
and your methods 10 thank for the aCqui-
sitiOn. Do not let his day nap be dis
turbed for the convenience or pleasure of
anyone. Wait patiently until MS eyes IN
close as naturally as viOletS al the touch
of the sun. He will sometimes over-sleep
the hour for MS meal or airing. Let him
alone! Once laid to rest in -nadOW and
calm, dear Mother Nature w finger on
lip, stands guard at the pill Wv. While
her watch lasts he is safe. Tie master,
if he sleep, he shall do WELL" holds good
in nursery as in sick room.
Put baby to bed for the night early, and
again, in a shaded chamber. The toss
ings, tWitchings and frOwns mat mark his
objection to sleeping in the light, might
teach a stupid nurse lessor, yet the ten
der mother, content to pass er evenings
beside him, sews or reads b. ges-burner
that lays broad band OF rae nee oCross
the baby face. "Oh, he dos It mind the
light" we hear when we ;emonstrate.
owe have trained him TO It." He does
mind it, but, being orly a hsby, cannot
word protest against pres Mt disCOm-
ieFt, and is as ignorant as h5 mother OF
Threatening ills 10 eyes and nerves.
Baby, then, must sleep Oft n; sleep reg
ularly; sleep long and in fri. IDLY gloom.
Omit one Of the stipulations nd the bene-
ticent work of slumber-lts specific agency
is rendered imperfect.
Now and them wish tn exceptions
were so rare as to merit the ,ithet "phen-
Omenal, I'VE happen upon I child that
seems not to know how to eep. From
his birth he wants to turn hit into day,
and by day ignores that hi 1t exists at
all. Older children gr0wl W n the morn
ing "Hist-st!" meets them Il the door of
the nursery. "Olher peoples babies are
not so easily walked up. This one would
get use to noise if Mamma cid not spoil
him." Nurse PIRATES OF collie, and would
keep him continually bef2ddled with
anise-ccTdiaI, brandy or part goric. The
doctor, in response to Mammals frantic
adiurations, prescribes bromide, coffee,
Devices Mixture, EVEN Choral, and puF-
chases sleep in broken homeopathic guam
titits. Page, in true masculine dislike to
accept anything as unaccCuntaole, lectures
upon mismanagemen LIVERY Cll.d Is
amenable to routine if discipline is en-
forced" Optimistic friends hope inst
the "poOr little thing may take turn
OeIOES long.
Oh, these prOgnosticated terms! "hat
delusive and elusive goals are they to dis
bahy-tendersI Most 'trOuDle-
some" children take turn, or have
change, or try new leaf, at the end Of
the first month. ii not then, two months
must bring q revolution. This stage
passed without visible change, six months
will bring all straight. With our obsti-
nately -waketul infant the old leaf often
outlasts the moons that wax to their wane
In thess slow half-year. Naturally, he does
ot-cannot-thrive. Loss Of sleep
makes him nervously cross; nervous irri-
liability prevents him from sleeping.
Action and reaction make him thin, appe-
titeless, backward" in every way.
Nurses leave in discouraging succession,
the mother is worn to q shadow with
Vigils and solieitude. "You can do moth